Description

Sir John James Burnet, dated 1899. 2-storey, L-plan villa. Harled brick, tooled red ashlar dressings, slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Windows mostly fixed multi-pane to top, larger pane casements to bottom, prominent cills, mullions and lintels; bracketted eaves, half-timbered gables; coped stepped wallhead to jamb at right of front elevation; coped stacks, uniform squat terracotta cans.

FRONT ELEVATION: boarded door with window and inscribed lintel 'AD 1899' recessed under swept roof to left, multi-pane dormer above with cat-slide roof; wide flat-roofed bay slightly advanced to right rising through roof, 2 windows to ground floor, tripartite to 1st. Left return gable; stair window, window to 1st floor. Right return elevation: window to ground and 1st floor right, outshot stack from 1st floor to centre, blank flat-roofed bay to left.

REAR ELEVATION: door to left, window to right, lean-to to far right, 1st floor blank.

INTERIOR: large stairwell, pitch pine scale and platt staircase, plain balusters; moulded cornices; boarded doors; some partition walls removed; original (damaged) chimneypiece at ground floor with later insert. BOUNDARY WALL: rubble boundary wall to front.

Statement of Interest

The building is empty and in a poor and deteriorating condition (1992). Some harling has fallen off. There is a dilapidated timber summer house to the rear.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17830299

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)